In addition to the financial burdens of HEVC licensing, the risk of lawsuits from patent holders can deter companies from ...

I gathered much of the information presented below from WWDC Session 504, "Advances in HTTP Live Streaming," by Roger Pantos, the original author of the HLS specification, and Anil Katti, both AV ...

If you're considering adding HEVC to your HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) videos, one concern has to be the CPU required to play the videos, as this affects both playback frame rate and battery life. To ...

A new industry group called HEVC Advance is threatening to demand royalties for the new HEVC video codec that could halve the bandwidth required for streaming online video or offer higher resolutions ...

NEW YORK— While it had been hoped that a patent pool license for the High Efficiency Video Coding compression scheme would be available from licensing body MPEG LA by now, vendors that required this ...

BOSTON, January 27, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC today announced that the Licensors of HEVC Advance have approved an extension of the deadline for new Licensees to secure current royalty ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

The technology, also called H.265 and the successor to H.264, promises to double video quality for better streaming and higher-res TV. But it'll come with a patent burden, too. Stephen Shankland ...

HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format. Like JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG, HEIF is a type of image format put forth by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). While much of the current discussion ...

The line of compression schemes is stretching out. Soon, we could potentially have MPEG-2 through to HEVC in use in a single program chain. All this complicates workflows and calls for careful ...

BOSTON, July 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC ("Advance") today announced the results of several significant decisions by the Licensors in both the HEVC Advance and VVC Advance Patent ...